arms of georgian kings - Janashia collection

Rivkin · 16th July 2006, 05:46 PM

I think the definition Islamic is actually quite useful here - all of the "persian" looking things are actually from Eastern Georgia, which at the time was a colony of Persia. All of them are actually called "persian sword" in Georgia, they are local variations of persian weapons; a lot of these people actually converted to Islam at one point or another, like Saakadze. I would not define the palash and khevsurian swords as Islamic, but see no reason why this can not be applied at least to shamshirs.

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16th July 2006, 05:46 PM	#5
Rivkin Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 655	I think the definition Islamic is actually quite useful here - all of the "persian" looking things are actually from Eastern Georgia, which at the time was a colony of Persia. All of them are actually called "persian sword" in Georgia, they are local variations of persian weapons; a lot of these people actually converted to Islam at one point or another, like Saakadze. I would not define the palash and khevsurian swords as Islamic, but see no reason why this can not be applied at least to shamshirs.